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Securing DNS: A Privacy Perspective

Jun 9, 2023 · 11 min read · This is Part 2 of my previous article: Decoding DNS — Understanding and Troubleshooting DNS Fundamentals. It dives head first into the fundamentals of DNS and how it serves as a critical system for navigating the internet and your homelab's network. ...

Decoding DNS: Understanding and Troubleshooting DNS Fundamentals

Jun 2, 2023 · 16 min read · What is DNS? Domain Name System (DNS) has been a core functionality for communications over the internet and LAN for decades, and yet, a lot of new developers, systems administrators, and technicians have a hard time grasping some fundamental concept...

Darkness Awaits: How I Built My MongoDB-Powered Next.js Site to Store Dark Wallpapers

Mar 12, 2023 · 13 min read · Like most people, I am not a fan of Light Mode. That may seem like heresy to some, but I digress; I need to use dark themes for almost everything I do that involves my computer to help my eyes. One of the main things that I've struggled with over the...

Designing Squrl 🐿️, an End-to-End Encrypted URL Shortening SaaS

Oct 24, 2022 · 15 min read · Editor's Note: This project was completed almost a year ago and was mainly my first feature complete full stack application that I designed and developed from beginning to end. It was practice for my university level knowledge in cybersecurity. Unfor...

Writing a Simple Command-Line Wrapper for OpenAI's API

Oct 24, 2022 · 4 min read · Artificial Intelligence will be playing a big role in technology within the next few decades. We are already seeing the monumental shift and impact they are currently producing, with debate on applications such as GitHub's Copilot or Stable Diffusion...